"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

Figuring out the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy—yet, it remains a challenge since ...

Trundling along the ecliptic plane in Virgo, our satellite hangs near the bright star Spica in the evening sky.

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

This is the first evidence for a white dwarf exploding not once, but twice. The discovery could shed new light on how some ...

The research draws on two existing approaches to better estimate stars’ ages.

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of ...

"Astronomers may have just discovered the third interstellar object passing through the Solar System!" the agency's ...

The VRO is a project jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of ...

Astronomers uncover how massive stars form by tracking interstellar ammonia. Using the U.S. National Science Foundation ...

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” supernova, where an initial helium blast on the star’s surface triggers a ...